The craft of writing is interesting in itself to me. I came across an article this week which spoke about writing short stories and how it’s an important vessel for authors to help in creating and increase their presence. The example offered was Author A writes an 80,000 word novel while Author B writes 8 x 10,000 word short reads. Author B can produce and publish these short reads at a quicker rate which starts building an audience with each release while Author A has to rely on one release. It was also outlined that Author B has the ability to tap into a greater number of keywords and and categories they can target. It was a really useful article and I’m glad I read it. I’ve only ever used short stories as writing prompts (up to 1,000 words in most instances) but this article spoke about an area in Amazon that I wasn’t aware of which is Kindle Short reads. I’ve been waiting for Kindle Vella to be released in Australia which is where authors write serialised pieces but this was different again (and available to me now!). So I went searching for some short reads and I began with some authors I was already familiar with. I started reading Brandon Sanderson this year and really enjoyed his Mistborn Series. Unbeknownst to me the book I selected was a short story between full length novels. It was a good taster of the series though and I’ve subsequently started reading the first book (Steelheart) which has been awesome so far. I got into some of the Jack Reacher books after seeing the TV series which I think is far superior to the Tom Cruise movies. Alan Ritchson is great and I’ve been a fan of his since Blue Mountain State. It has me rethinking my approach and I’m starting to lean towards maybe working on one or two short stories while still developing my novel. The links below to buy now are affiliate links to Amazon Australia.
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30/9/2022 0 Comments Musings - All Genre writing groupG’day everyone,
Thought I’d start doing some regular updates to my blog websites. I’ll be using this news section for a number of things like the book reviews, updates to my WIP and anything else that comes to me. This post is mainly about some feedback I got from a recent All Genre writing group that I received. Now this feedback was amazing really but I felt conflicted about receiving it. What a fun little adventure this book provided.
I was searching for another Aussie author, this time in the action/adventure genre and Matt’s name popped up. As soon as I read the description on this book I knew it would be right up my alley. I wasn’t disappointed either. It was a great story of good vs evil and while easy reading, it captured the violent confrontations with in-depth detail. I not only enjoyed this book but I learnt a lot from it too. The narrative of the book which utilised flashbacks regularly wasn’t something that I’d come across before and it gave each character time to shine through the eyes of the main character. I’ll definitely be checking out a few more of Matt’s books. |
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